Comments on: We’re not going to hell, we already live in it

By: Missy

Missy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:57:59 +0000

Watoto ni wa Mungu true but I submit that people don’t know the actual cost or what it takes to parent because for most of them their parents were hardly around. Not a defense but a factor. Reminds me of a story my friend was telling me of a mother who had left her son to live on the streets because she couldn’t take care of him. When they were reunited and he needed a release form for an operation she refused aying Mungu analeta na Mungu anachukua. Ignorance reigns and ruins our people. Poverty enables it even more. His sisters are prostituting most of them younger than 15. My friend who is a social worker was being told by the girls inawasha (when they don’t have a man). This by girls who are in class two to eight? We do already live in hell.

By: CB

CB — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:40:51 +0000

I’m rather an ostrich about things like this. It hurts too much to think about, so I don’t. lame, i know, but the very thought of anyone hurting my baby [or anyone else's baby for that matter] breaks me, and i don’t like being broken…

By: savvy

savvy — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:19:06 +0000

The poor will be exploited by the rich, and it’s sad that children get involved. No one is willing to enforce strict laws as long the sex pests wave their green dollars….

and yes, let’s not forget family planning. This brings me to the question of whether if someone is poor, they should not have children.

By: Darius Stone

Darius Stone — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:15:47 +0000

Mama. There’s absolutely no point in trying to rationalize the motivation of a government whose interests are short term financial gains as opposed to the security and welfare of children. The issue of poverty is not only a factor that forces children into prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation. Poverty and corruption also has a bearing on the ability of the criminal justice system to bring any perpetrators to book. What motivation do the police have to follow up cases if the opportunity is there for perpetrators to bribe their way out of a difficult situation. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were officers who also take sexual advantage of vulnerable children because their impunity will never be challenged.

@KR, I agree – “Watoto ni wa mungu” has to stop. Family planning is key to this.

@Mystic. Until victims start believing that justice is a reality, then the thousands of young girls who suffer silently will continue. Unfortunately, the sexual exploitation of girls in their teenage and pre-teenage years has become a cotttage industry with the worst of the criminals being known to the victims.

By: Mystic

Mystic — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:24:35 +0000

As you said these are just but a few of the cases that have come out in the public eye. Many continue to suffer in what others consider “not worth mentioning”cases. Relatives who continue to prey on their female kin and threaten them to shut up. I was reading a report that stated that a certain significant percentage (I would need to confirm the statistics) of all female children in Africa have suffered one form or another of sexual abuse in their pre-teen or teen ages regardless of their financial background. Sexual predators just out rightly need to be done away with.period! Castration would be more like it!

By: Digzer

Digzer — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:28:37 +0000

We’re Kenyans. We know our government. Enough said.

What I want to know is what I can do. Taking action may save but 1 child but that child’s life will be forever changed.